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Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 1 APR 2014
... Tuesday, the June share price index futures contract was up four points at 5,397. The Fed chair's comments, in a speech in Chicago, underlined that unemployment was still a big challenge for the economy and that the Fed would maintain its extraordinary ...

AMP Capital appoints fixed income head

HARRY PAGE  |  FRIDAY, 7 FEB 2014
... expand its Fixed Income team. AMP now has Fixed Income teams has 30 people based in Hong Kong, Australia, New Zealand and Chicago.

Butterfly effect

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 AUG 2013

The "ber" months are coming

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 8 AUG 2013

The good, the good and the dollar-A

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 23 JUL 2013
... night's weak reports - existing home sales fell by 1.2% to a less than expected 5.1 million annualised rate in June and the Chicago Fed National Activity Index remained in negative territory last month. Whoopsie! Sorry, I should have typed "because of" ...

SEC charges US adviser with pension fund theft

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 13 JUN 2013
... charged senior exectives at the firm became aware of the theft in 2011. The SEC's investigation was conducted jointly by the Chicago Regional Office, the Division of Enforcement's Asset Management Unit, and the Municipal Securities and Public Pensions ...

ASX to introduce VIX futures contract

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 JUN 2013
... year - reflecting recent downward market trends. Last week Russell Rhoades, instructor at the Options Institute at the Chicago Board Options Exchange, and a leading authority on VIX, gave a talk at the ASX Institutional Conference in Sydney, entitled ...

More flip flopping ahead for Wall Street

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 3 JUN 2013
... continue to work overtime. The Street down the following day because better-than expected data - consumer confidence and Chicago PMI - says QE tapering is nigh. Expect more flipping and flopping on Wall Street this first trading week of June, particularly ...

William Blair targets super fund investors with 'game theory'

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 28 MAY 2013
Chicago-based asset manager William Blair's head of dynamic allocation strategies Brian Singer has been in Australia promoting the firm's Macro Allocation Fund to institutional investors. The strategy is centred on the investment philosophy of 'game ...

Yuan to float free, in our dreams

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 MAY 2013